I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 288 - 239 You Can’t Run_1

Chapter 288: Chapter 239 You Can’t Run_1

"Huff~" By the riverbank, Zheng Yichen washed his face with cool water, and it took quite a while before he finally came to his senses, "This feeling is really... beyond words."

Shaking the water off his hands, Zheng Yichen sat on the motorcycle, his tattered clothes still unworn. As for the cat spirit cloak, he hadn’t brought it with him, always keeping it on the motorcycle. Fortunately, it hadn’t been damaged in the battle.

Reflecting on the state he was in when he used the Demonic Abyss Seven Kills, he realized that when he had used it in its incomplete form, he returned to normal after striking once. But this time, after he finished his assault, not only did he not recover immediately, but he also felt an urge to continue his deadly rampage.

The related memories hadn’t disappeared, and Zheng Yichen didn’t feel too strong a sense of disconnection, but there was still discomfort, like his thirty-year-old self facing his fifteen-year-old self.

The feeling was strange, but knowing it was still him, he didn’t reject it too much.

"I let myself go too much." Wiping the water off his face, Zheng Yichen looked towards where the Sky Pillar had disappeared; the plains where it once stood had been completely transformed.

The scattered light from the collapsing bands of light lasted less than ten minutes before disappearing without a trace, as if they had never existed, save for the deep scars they had left on the land when they were torn away.

From where he was, he could see a long, deep valley, which was left behind when the bands of light were ripped out.

"Boundary Breaking Faction, Equilibrium Faction, now there’s another one."

He heard some noise and looked up to the sky, where one fighter jet after another quickly flew towards where the Sky Pillar had once existed.

The Sky Pillar was gone, but its impact on the world was still significant; the temperature slowly returned to normal, making life bearable for humans, but in terms of the environment... Zheng Yichen raised his hand, a whirlwind formed, but it was very unstable.

The potency of the world’s forces had weakened, even if the environmental tier hadn’t changed. This weakening of power would inevitably lead to the people of this world falling behind in the development of special powers.

As for the fact that the environmental tier hadn’t decreased, Zheng Yichen figured it was because this world’s ’resource pool’ was still intact. The elements that were drawn away only caused the world to enter a state of ’resource depletion,’ but the overall volume was still ample. Whether it could recover in the future remained to be seen.

And the reason that Katrina’s world would become stronger was that its ’resource pool’ had been broken, infused with a much larger volume of world resources, and the overall size was no longer limited because the resource pool was shattered.

This world’s resource pool was in good shape, so naturally, it wouldn’t be balanced out by the world resources from other worlds that had been tampered with by the Equilibrium Faction.

"However, the strength tier of this world is not low either. In terms of individual power development, there is still a long way to go." Zheng Yichen rode to a city he had passed through before, which now resembled a face marred with scratches.

But compared to its previous desolation, the city was now much livelier. Upon his arrival, he saw some transport planes and soldiers with megaphones, gathering the survivors within the city.

Passing through a spot, Zheng Yichen even saw a man he had encountered before. The man had taken off his coat and donned a neat outfit. The temperature, which had been below zero, had now climbed back above freezing.

It was probably around ten degrees or so and rising slowly.

"Colonel Deene, welcome back to the squad," said a soldier to the man in the coat, whom Zheng Yichen had met before.

"..." Deene nodded, then his gaze turned to a certain direction, and he showed a look of surprise.

The soldier by his side quickly asked, "Sir, is there a problem?"

"No, take me to the camp first, I need to write a report." The armed soldier immediately nodded, "Please come with me."

As he was leaving, Deene cast an extra glance at the place where Zheng Yichen had passed by. He couldn’t be sure whether Zheng Yichen was the reason for the Sky Pillar’s departure, but at a fleeting glance just now, he noticed that Zheng Yichen seemed to be in poor shape, with many tattered signs of battle on his clothes.

’In the frigid city, I met a young man who seemed to know about the existence of the Dusk mercenary and asked me many questions. He must be one of those from the same profession... I thought that my encounter with him had ended there, but the Sky Pillar changed a few days after he left.’

In an office that had been cleared out, Deene took a sip of the hot coffee next to him. The city’s power supply hadn’t fully recovered yet.

The bands of light had done considerable damage to the city, but small-scale electricity usage was no longer an issue. Setting the coffee back down, he continued writing the report.

’The massive Sky Pillar rose from the ground pulling countless bands of light from beneath. My city too was divided by the bands of light, becoming like a cake that had been sliced up. What should have been a hopeless disaster turned into a new dawn at this moment.’

’The Sky Pillar was leaving our world. Due to the distance, I could only see the tail end which seemed to have been hit by something, causing the Sky Pillar to break as it was being pulled away.’

’During the fracturing of the Sky Pillar, water was able to freeze even at low temperatures, and the temperature began to rise...’

’As I rejoined my squad, I encountered the young man again. He appeared to have gone through an exceedingly difficult battle. I could not confirm whether he was the cause of the Sky Pillar’s extraction. It’s hard to believe that the Sky Pillar, which even nuclear weapons could not affect, could be destroyed by someone. Perhaps he had infiltrated the enemy’s vital area and disrupted something important...’

Writing up to this point, Deene hesitated for a moment before continuing, ’Perhaps the other party isn’t human?... but a savior?’

Deene put down his pen, stretched out his hand to tug at his collar, the temperature was still rising, although after reaching ten-plus degrees, the pace of increase slowed down, yet even so, he still felt somewhat hot.

After submitting the report, the next day, Deene was called into a meeting room, where he received a file. Seeing the suggestive look from the person handing him the file, he opened it to find many photos inside, some of them in a sequence.

The young man arrived at an abandoned clothing store, and inside, he found a set of suitable clothes,

The last photo showed the young man driving out of the city.

"The earthquake buried all information near the Sky Pillar, but our people found some traces overnight, confirming that he indeed came in contact with the Sky Pillar."

The tire tracks left by Zheng Yichen’s bicycle were found by their people, which was difficult, but after expert analysis and targeted searching, they still found clues, perfectly matching the wheels in the photos.

"So, is he really the savior?"

"I don’t know, he didn’t intend to make contact with us. After leaving the city, the individual disappeared, but according to our investigation, we can at least confirm that he eats human food." The man in the suit smiled at Deene, "Alright, Colonel Deene, we have a lot of work to do, the award ceremony will have to wait. Before then, we need to restore this city to normal!"

Dusk Territory.

Zheng Yichen sat lazily on the long bench in the church, his concern over the radiation issue having been resolved after arriving here.

The process was very simple, Prioress Tia took him to the medical room for a visit, handing him two pills that looked like iodine, and after eating them, she told Zheng Yichen it was all taken care of.

Afterwards, he didn’t leave immediately but stayed here for a while, incidentally learning some information from Tia.

After the Boundary Breaking Faction and the Equilibrium Faction, there was another—the Devouring Faction. It wasn’t actually new; it had always existed, but the Devouring Faction operated a bit differently from the other two.

The Boundary Breaking Faction was already established, their headquarters being a Great World, a fierce one at that. The Equilibrium Faction could be regarded as virulent spreaders; once an unfortunate world was infected, that world would become a source of contagion.

The initial contagion rate was not high, but it was similar to a snowball rolling down a hill; as the numbers grew, the speed of contagion would explode.

In contrast, the threat from the Devouring Faction might not be as severe, but this faction was not without danger; they directly plundered resources from worlds to strengthen themselves, just like practicing a skill that absorbed the stars or the North Sea Divine Skill.

The Great World of the Boundary Breaking Faction would head towards collapse, the Equilibrium Faction would lead to the resonating destruction of those worlds, and the Devouring Faction was akin to a string of bombs. The immense resources of countless worlds would converge, and even if this fueled the growth of the Devouring Faction’s own world, once it reached a certain level, it would BOOM and end in an explosion.

Think of the aftermath of a nuclear bomb hitting a city; that’s the effect of such an explosive end, with different worlds being the victims.

The Devouring Faction wasn’t limited to a single world; there were many, and they might even be hostile to each other. But because their methods were the same, they could all be categorized under the Devouring Faction.

...This world really was in dire straits.

After learning this information, Zheng Yichen was at a loss for words; his reference to ’world’ meant a world that encompassed all ’worlds’ within it.

Compared to these problematic powers, Dusk’s way of doing things, while a bit swaggering, seemed like the best option by comparison, no? At least Dusk wasn’t a destroyer but a preserver.

"My mental state won’t have issues, right?" Zheng Yichen asked as he looked around at some of the people in the Dusk Cathedral; as the climate gradually returned to normal, more and more people gathered here, and their attire was no longer about wearing layers of heavy cotton-padded jackets.

Tia glanced at Zheng Yichen’s head, "Your mental state is very normal."

"But I was like a madman when I used Demonic Abyss Seven Kills."

"You’re not sick."

"I mean, it’s like that. If I use that technique too much, won’t I really become brain-damaged?"

"Even in that state, you would still be you, just with a changed way of doing things, still my Proxy Agent, and you can’t escape that."

"..."